Thursday, January 21, 2010

In PeopleTools 8.50, PeopleSoft does not document the command line parameter needed to run the installation in GUI mode for Linux/Unix servers. The installation defaults to console mode. To get the same GUI experience, you can use the following command line flag.

-i swing

So of you have downloaded the PeopleTools installation media to PS_INSTALL, you can run the following.

PS_INSTALL/Disk1/setup.sh –tempdir $HOME/tmp –i swing

(Note tempdir is a documented command line parameter to use the folder other than /tmp. It requires at least 2GB free space in temp folder).